NEW MARKET — Southmont will return five of its top six golfers from a season ago, but lose its top player from a season ago in the 2021 Journal Review Co-Golfer of the Year and Sagamore Conference medalist, Micah Korhorn.
The Mounties will have a total of 13 on their roster as they will look to repeat as county champions.
“I feel that we should be very competitive for our schedule,” longtime Mountie coach Bill Whalen said. “We have added the Clinton Central, Danville and Lebanon Invitationals to our schedule this year. We will also be competing in our own invitational along with the Tiger Cub invitational at Greencastle.”
Whalen has always had the mindset of focusing on what his team can control and not what the Mounties competition does. In golf and in most spring sports, the weather, course conditions etc. can and sometimes will play a factor.
“You can only control yourself,” Whalen said. “With that in mind our team goals will be set differently every meet depending on the course and the conditions. As a team we have already discussed the number we want and try to hit each meet but conditions may not allow for that.”
The county, conference, and sectional are once again the main goals for the Mounties as the field will once again be a competitive one, yet one that Whalen thinks his team has yet another chance of being able to win.
“That’s where we hope to be playing our best golf,” Whalen added.
The Mounties begin their 2022 season April 9 when they will compete in the Clinton Central Invite.
